And those sausages..............yuck........maybe close to blasphamy but they really are the most vile and rubbery sausages in Europe (discounting School dinner sausages).Mind,an old Butcher once told me that the only food Butchers will never eat is sausages :)

Unless you find a butcher who prides himself on making great bangers without the nasty bits. There are lots of them in the UK. I used to have an account with a butcher in the north who made excellent sausages: pork and leek; lamb and rosemary; beef with horeseradish. He won awards regularly. The stuff from supermarkets made from MRM (mechanically recovered meat) should come with a health warning. Dog food is better regulated.

The M & S range of teas is good and the price is very fair about 8PLN for the 20 sachet box of exotics/organics/fairtrade and about 10 PLN for the standard char 50 box. The quality of the tea is leaps and bounds above the regular Polish dust bags. Although I do not claim M&S to have the best tea selection in PL, there are speciality shops that sell loose tea the selection is very good although a touch more expensive.

why would you want to subject yourself to british food on the continent when there is so much excellent french and italian to enjoy?!

Why would you want to suject yourself to overrated French food when you can have Indian, Thai or Chinese?

but where is the text

On the images :) duh!

gherkins

Well, we do like pickles... lol.

I really cannot believe that anyone would leave Britain and crave these utterly loathsome and revolting foodstuffs.

I have to admit I do like HP sauce. And it's not made in Birmingham (or indeed the UK) any more, iirc, so it's not even that "British" these days. I should be in Warsaw after Christmas, though; so if anyone wants some... lol.

Mind you, my time in the North also means that I learned to like gravy on my chips as well.. lmao :)

I haven't try Scottish tea yet. is it taste good ? I came across this report today - fastmr.com/prod/321030_globalseedtreatment.aspx.I'm not familiar the publisher, but it looks pretty focused. Anybody here know the company?

If anyone's in or near Warsaw and wants to buy British food, there's a special event at Auchan in £omianki this Saturday. I get back home to PL that morning and since it's just up the road will definitely go and see what freebies they give out:

We will be launching the "British Aisles" campaign on Saturday 21st March at 2.00 p.m. at Auchan shopping centre in £omianki!

Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy, Sarah Tiffin will officially open the British stand with select products from 21 British food and drink producers, which the delicatessen chain 'Kuchnie Świata' is introducing to Poland.

Our special guest will be Kevin Aiston, a British celebrity in Poland and author of "Kevin sam w kuchni", a cookery book with British recipes. He will be preparing known British dishes like "ploughman's lunch, "roast lamb" i "traditional British pancakes", which you can't miss.

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Intriguing about the "photo with The Queen" - there's no shortage of queens in Warsaw but I doubt HM herself is coming, but at least we can see Tiffin serving tiffin.. I can live without ever regretting not watching Kevin Aiston assembling a ploughman's lunch, although as celebrity Brits in Poland go he's probably the best choice. In any case, Nigel Kennedy's probably too expensive, Rula Lenska too Polish to be exotic in £omianki and Norman Davies too busy...

I have come to live in Lower Silesia, originally from UK.Its not my intention to offend Polish people or their food with this posting.Altho I have a healthy and varied diet here there are certain things I do miss.from UK, HP Sauce, Crumpets, Pork Pie, Maltesers for instance

I know there is a shop in Warsawa that can supply most of these things and deliver but as far as I know there is no where relatively close to me (I am about one & half hours west of Wroclaw, close to the German border).

I would be interested to know what foods you miss that you could get in UK? and if anyone knows of a shop closer to me

Bird's custard powder, Bisto, Colman's mustard immediately spring to mind. My local supermarket in Warsaw stocks HP Sauce but I'm not a fan of that. They also have Lea & Perrins Worcester Sauce which I like. They're in the International food section. The Worcester sauce is in the Japanese section!! Do you have a Carrefour in Wrocław? My husband is Polish but he loves Colman's and Bovril which we also can't get here. I also miss being able to pick up a tin of Golden Syrup and a decent sized drum of baking powder; the tiny packets here with about two spoons of baking powder drive me nuts.

britishcornershop.co.uk/which delivers internationally.£12.99 for delivery to Poland ( up to 30 kgs ) and half price if you order over £100 worth of goods.Might be worth the cost if you want to stock up on loads of goods, or maybe you could split the cost if you know others also missing British food.

Kaufland beans are very good, and Heinz beans are not the same since they changed the recipe.I always stock up on Atora suet when I go to the UK. The last time I brought Marmite, the lads at Heathrow confiscated it. Two huge jars. They were sympathetic but took it anyway, along with several kilos of semtex cheddar.

Thanks Roger5, I havent been in Kaufland in a while so will give them a visit. Im sorry to hear about your Marmite (yuck, yuck,yuck..love it or hate it). Last time I flew from UK I had 5 portions of shish kebab from my favourite Indian takeaway in my hand luggage, customs didnt bat an eyelid!

I am surprised that English mustard is hard to find, supermarkets seem to have lots of French mustards here. Our local Intermarche is definitely increasing their range of International products.

That's probably because there are so many types of mustard to choose from. Polish mustard is fine. Just try a few and stick with one that most closely resembles Colman's. Polish horseradish sauce is better than anything you find in the UK, especially if you buy it from old village ladies who make it themselves and sell it in market places. They usually colour it red with beetroot.